{"id":223684,"date":"2022-04-27T10:26:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=223684"},"modified":"2022-04-27T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:00:07","slug":"new-round-of-ads-target-toyota-for-resuming-political-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2022\/04\/new-round-of-ads-target-toyota-for-resuming-political-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Round of Ads Target Toyota for Resuming Political Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Lincoln Project, an organization led by Republicans and former Republicans who believe their party lost its bearings during the Trump era, have criticized Toyota Motor North America for supporting Republican members of the U.S House of Representatives, who voted against certifying the election of President Joe Biden, after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol Building Jan. 6, 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lincoln Project is running ads calling out Toyota for contributing to lawmakers who voted against certifying the 2020 election.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToo often, big corporations think they can act with impunity in politics. Donate to whoever advances their agenda. And they assume nothing will ever happen,\u201d according to the Lincoln Project, which produced a series of memorable anti-Trump ads during the run-up to the 2020 Presidential election for failing to address COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toyota, like other companies with high public profiles, did stop campaign contributions<\/a><\/u><\/strong> to members of the \u201csedition caucus\u201d after the Jan. 6 riot, which led to five deaths and injuries to dozens of police officers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you were with us last summer, you probably remember when we all came together to pressure Toyota to stop its campaign contributions to Republicans who voted to block certification of President Biden\u2019s victory,\u201d the Lincoln Project noted in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toyota hit for reversing course <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

However, the Lincoln Project noted this week<\/a><\/u><\/strong>, \u201cToyota lied to us all, broke its pledge to uphold democracy, and is now funding the sedition caucus again\u201d by resuming its contributions to a Republican Congressman, who voted against certification of Biden\u2019s victory. Digital ads attacking Toyota began running on Internet sites this week and on CNBC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump supporters staged an insurrection at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Toyota noted the company has a long-standing policy of making contributions to both political parties and makes a practice of supporting Congressmen representing districts in which it has operations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToyota is committed to supporting and promoting actions that further our democracy. Our company has long-standing relationships with members of Congress across the political spectrum, especially those representing our U.S. operations,\u201d the company said in a statement.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company added, \u201cOur bipartisan PAC equally supports Democrats and Republicans running for Congress. In fact, in 2021, the vast majority of the contributions went to Democrats and Republicans who supported the certification of the 2020 election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lincoln Project ads appeared on CNBC and YouTube.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe understand that the PAC decision to support select members of Congress who contested the results troubled some stakeholders. We are actively listening to our stakeholders, and, at this time, we have decided to stop contributing to those members of Congress who contested the certification of certain states in the 2020 election,\u201d the company added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the Lincoln Project claimed Toyota, with its donations, is supporting representatives who have actively worked against democracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve even donated to Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) who helped plan January 6th,\u201d the Lincoln project said. In all, 147 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted against certifying Biden\u2019s elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The automaker\u2019s PAC also gave $1,000 to the campaigns of Reps. Jackie Walorski (R-Indiana), David Kustoff (R-Tennessee), Garret Graves (R-Louisiana) and Trent Kelly (R-Mississippi) last month, according to a Federal Election Commission filing, the online publication The Hill Reported.  Toyota also has donated to Tim Walberg (R-Michigan) and Alex Mooney (R-West Virginia).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toyota takes a hit from anti-Trump Republicans for making contributions to U.S. Representatives who voted against certification of Biden win on Jan. 6. Automaker halts financial support in response. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":223688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,1164,1169,5265],"tags":[5845,5846,5844,543,1338],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223684"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223697,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223684\/revisions\/223697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223684"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=223684"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=223684"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=223684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}